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2 unusual facts about Subic


Charmaine Clamor

Born in Subic-Zambales, Philippines, Charmaine Clamor began her singing career at age 3, entertaining passengers in the back of buses traveling to Manila.

Subic

U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, which was the United States' largest overseas naval base


Advanced Base Force

In an exercise in 1907 at Subic Bay, a battalion commanded by Major Eli K. Cole emplaced forty-four heavy guns in a ten-week period due to the Eight-eight fleet war scare with Japan in 1907, which convinced the Navy Department that it should organize the matériel for an advanced base force to be available in the Philippines and one that is well-prepared and trained in Philadelphia, PA.

Central Luzon Link Expressway

Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEx) is a proposed toll road that will connect the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) to the proposed North Luzon East Expressway in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija towards San Jose City, Nueva Ecija.

Croatia in the union with Hungary

However (as was common throughout Europe in the Late Middle Ages), in enabling the nobility to seize more and more economic and military power, the kingdom itself lost influence to the Frankopan, Šubić, Lacković, Nelipčić, Kačić, Kurjaković, Drašković, Babonić and other families.

Jelena Nemanjić Šubić

After Mladen III Šubić's death, she ruled as his widow over Skradin and Klis.

North Luzon West Expressway

The first leg of the expressway will begin in Hermosa in Bataan and from there it is called as "Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway" and was developed by the joint-venture of First Philippine Infrastructure Development Corporation, Tollways Management Corporation and Egis Projects.

President's Cup Regatta

Then Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos, impressed by the success of Ray Ordoveza's "Vida" in the China Sea Race and Easter Regatta, encouraged the Manila Yacht Club to organize an International regatta at Subic in 1997.

Subic rape case

She also said that just before midnight of November 1, 2005, Smith raped her inside a moving Starex van at Alava Pier in Subic.

Subic–Tipo Expressway

It then arrives at Hermosa, Bataan where there is a toll plaza and the road forks into two, the left towards Jose Abad Santos Avenue, the right the toll plaza of the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway.

The alignment curves to the right as it crosses Argonaut highway and goes up as it enters the Bataan National Park.

The Subic–Tipo Expressway or the NLEx Segment 7 is a two-lane expressway approximately 8.8 kilometers in length whose alignment traverses the provinces of Zambales and Bataan.

Zrin Castle

In 1347, the Hungarian-Croatian King Louis I the Great bestowed the fortress to the noble Šubić family who changed their family name after it, becoming Zrinski.


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